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Princess Diana Panorama interview - Reaction (1995)

Genre

Interview; News report; Vox pop

Reaction to the Princess of Wales, Princess Diana’s frank interview on the Panorama television programme and debate on its implications for the monarchy. Includes clip of US CNN coverage; Australian ABC...

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David Starkey - Monarchy Series 1 (2007)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 219 minutes), £19.99

The first series of Dr David Starkey’s programmes examining the British monarchy and its relationship with its subjects over the centuries. He begins in the Dark Ages with Alfred the Great and goes up to...

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Monarchy and New Media conference

Date

27 Nov 2012, 12:56

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

Post

The end of the Diamond Jubilee year affords an opportunity to look back and examine a neglected aspect of the history of the monarchy: the engagement with new forms of media. The British Library, in...

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King’s a Beggar - Now the Play is Done, The (2000 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare Lectures

Producer

Tanya Hudson

BBC radio series. Six commissioned lectures on Shakespeare and his meaning in the modern world. In episode 1 Professor Germaine Greer argues that Shakespeare’s neglected play King John is one of the most...

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Shakespeare and Power (2016 Radio)

aka: Power of Royalty, The

Series

Words and Music

Radio broadcast. Juliet Stevenson and Tim Pigott-Smith are the readers in a sequence of texts and music inspired by one of Shakespeare’s favourite themes: the power of royalty and monarchy as a metaphor...

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Night Waves [11/07/2006] (2006 Radio)

Series

Night Waves

Producer

Philippa Ritchie

BBC Radio 3 arts series. Philip Dodd talks to John Barton and Professor Michael Dobson about the staging of Shakespeare’s history plays throughout history. The impetus to the debate is the production of...

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Hollow Crown, The (1965 Video)

Director

Charles Dubin

Producer

Anthony Havelock-Allan; David Susskind; Daniel Melnick

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s chronicle of the English monarchy from Saxon times, with musical interludes. The readings are from literary works in the public domain and were compiled by John Barton.

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Illuminations: The Private Lives of Medieval Kings (2012)

Subject

English language and literature; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 177 minutes), £15.00

A three-part television series in which art historian Dr Janina Ramirez tells the story of the Medieval monarchy as revealed through illuminated manuscripts from the British Library’s Royal Manuscripts...

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Making of the United Kingdom, The: Crowns, Parliaments and Peoples 1500-1750 (1998 Multimedia)

Subject

History

Distribution

CD-ROM

A collection of source material covering the history of the United Kingdom from 1500 to 1750. Structured around 14 investigations into key questions of political and religions change, such as the effects of...

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Decision makers (1983)

Genre

Documentary; Interview; Speech; Vox pop

Decision Makers examines the British Royal Family: public opinion in relation to it, the Royal Family’s role, reasons for the fame which outstrips that of any other Royalty in the world. Explores the...

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